i once played Ultima 7 for about 2 months or so.
i really loved that game and its complexity and
your freedom during the quests...i guess i was close to complete the game!
then, one day my party had a terrible fight in one
of the big forrests. we survived!
but some time afterwards i realised that one of
my heroes had lost the bag with all the keys i had
collected. somewhere in the forrest. with no way
to get them back...no chance to find em...(i tried for a few hours).
We need information about what software sends data to
- what IPs - what ports - what protocols - what GUID formats - are there checksums?
THEN we write a platform independend program (say a perlscript)
- that generates unique user ids faster than you can say/dev/random ! >:-)) gihihihHAHAHAH. - well, there are some words noone here would say loud, but they also would be perfect GUIDs:)
THEN we donate it as a Christmas gift to everyone who wants it and make much noise about it, so everyone uses it, because it's much cooler that seti@home
FINALLY the GUID-Collecting sites must shut down the service, because they get 10 times as much GUIDs as there are Lifeforms on earth:))
if anyone knows some data about sites collecting guids and what format they are using, please feel free to send it to me. i'll try to make such a program but i have no idea what the data looks like and what protocols "they" are using.:)
Then you could just attach your head to the genetically identical body
Ok, well, *just* do that.
But could people get really immortal by s/old body/new body/g ?
a 500 year old woman with a 25 year old body ....unpleasant thought
when talking about head transplanting and bill gates, "microsoft exchange" gets a new meaning.
microsoft (R) head exchange (R) with microsoft (R) body explorer (R)
"what do you want to transplant today?" (R) version 9.00, first release (but who cares).
you plug in the ms-phtu (microsoft (R) portable head transplanting unit) in an usb-slot and the thing is detected automatically. as a multimedia device. the default language is arabian, every single dll is automagically overwritten, but who cares. after half an hour of dumb clicking-around, everything is set up. hopefully. you have put your new headless body into the chair next to you. you fire up the virtual transplantation engine with a brave doubleclick.
head transplanting initiated. please wait...
[a window pops up showing two headless bodies sitting in chairs with a head floating from one to the other in an endless loop]
and then, in the middle of the transplantation:
------- 0E --------- general head-protection fault error in trnsplnt.vxd at 00F0AD:00BEAF [meaningless hexdump follows]
hope you made a backup copy of your head before it crashed!!!
on a unix machine, your head would have been dumped:))... and an fallback process would have installed an emergency head on each body.
It is THE theme on slashdot an i really love to read the same arguments told again and again using different words and i am even more amused reading the lots of NEW arguments never heard before!
i have an idea: make this discussion a separate part of slashdot, a permanent feature, a gamelike thing with a big counter Linux vs. MS where the best comments score! Only the last, say, 300 comments are stored, like with a logfile-wrapper.
Except of the above, THERE WILL BE NO RULES!
wow, i'd love that!
BUT WAIT: Another thing we could do: write two eliza-like programs, one on a Linux platform, the other on a windoze^H^Hws platform. (maybe even make separate ones for win9x and winNT...)
then, put them into discussion.:) yeah, make them defend their platform and try to outrage each other.
AND: the both elizas must have a web interface, where geeks can add new arguments and curses to the knowledge-base of each one. of course this could be extended to other platforms too! maybe we can also do a moderator-bot, that tries to calm down both parties...
No, that's not my point. I just don't want anybody to see AT THE FIRST GLANCE, that there's something crypted.
Ok, you are right when someone takes a closer look, that doesnt help. But if you have to enter the key all the time you reboot your machine, you must always unlock the crypted fs. Ain't i right?
The more people who use crypto, the more effective cryptography will be for everybody. If one has to even understand what ``NFS'' is in order to install a package like this, then it's still too hard.
You are right. Maybe RedHat or Suse will add it to their distributions. Then it will come correctly set up. Oh, wait, it seems RedHat has included it already: http://www.replay.com/redhat/cfs.html
That's why PGP and S/MIME are still so marginal that they can be completely discounted: only gurus use them, because they aren't so completely transparent that you don't even know that they're there until they have something to warn you about.
Try KDE's kmail. Or read Pine's documentation on how to embed pgp.
But it will always be the users part to understand what he does, why there are public/secret keys and so on. I think it can never get fully transparent.
I've written a PGP-GUI too, 2 years ago. The problem is, a user always has to worry with his keyrings manually, there are some points that cannot be automated.
Some believe NASA faked the moonlandings because they couldn't have to tech to get there. Some believe the NSA is so far ahead of the crypto game that they look over their shoulder all the time.
Ok, that is plain paranoia, right.
NSA is government so it's acronym should probably stand for 'Not So Advanced'.
Huh? I hear you say "US Army is government so it's acronym [...] stands for 'Not so Advanced' ".
And that's plain wrong.
If you're concerned about them, thats not paranoid. Being concerned is, IMHO, our duty, and we should give the average users a slight idea about whats going on.
I am surprised that ppl, that are not so much into computers and stuff know almost NOTHING about NSA, crypto and so on. You almost never hear anything about that on TV, Newspapers...
I am concerned, not paranoid. There's a difference.
I am using CFS for quite a while now. Hm, I don't think it's too complicated, (ok, maybe it took me some time to make it work;) as far as I remember, there is a step-by-step description how to configure.
after installing the daemon with an init.d script you can mount crypted filesystems. It's straight forward.
i would suggest not to do this during startup, as you would immediatly reveal that you have crypted data.... but if you need that, you could add the corresponding command to the init.d script.
If you think about crypting your whole filesystems, that might be possible, but you would lose LOTS of performance. Just create a directory for your sensitive data.
Then, inside your favorite Windowmanager, you may have two icons, that let you attach and detach the crypted directory
hm...about reentering the passphrase after suspension... I personally would add a line to my log-watcher (something like "SWATCH" or "WOTS") that looks after apmd's messages to syslog. if a "resumed after suspend" (dont know the exact text and my notebook is at home;) ) appears -> detach the crypted fs.
I think the power of such software relies on the fact, that it is NOT stuffed into a corset of GUI and foolproof(impossible) usage.
if you need help, send mail.
nuts
p.s. Has anybody here experience with sfs ? Steganographic FS:)) fscking cool.
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the screenshot is from the "babylon 5" series.
i once played Ultima 7 for about 2 months or so.
:)
i really loved that game and its complexity and
your freedom during the quests...i guess i was close to complete the game!
then, one day my party had a terrible fight in one
of the big forrests. we survived!
but some time afterwards i realised that one of
my heroes had lost the bag with all the keys i had
collected. somewhere in the forrest. with no way
to get them back...no chance to find em...(i tried for a few hours).
i never played ultima again.
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FIRST
/dev/random ! >:-)) gihihihHAHAHAH. :)
:))
:)
We need information about
what software sends data to
- what IPs
- what ports
- what protocols
- what GUID formats
- are there checksums?
THEN we write a platform independend program
(say a perlscript)
- that generates unique user ids faster than you
can say
- well, there are some words noone here would say
loud, but they also would be perfect GUIDs
THEN
we donate it as a Christmas gift to everyone who wants it and make much noise about it, so everyone
uses it, because it's much cooler that seti@home
FINALLY
the GUID-Collecting sites must shut down the service, because they get 10 times as much GUIDs as there are Lifeforms on earth
if anyone knows some
data about sites collecting guids and what
format they are using, please feel free to
send it to me. i'll try to make such a program
but i have no idea what the data looks like and
what protocols "they" are using.
mfg
nuts
sorry, i could not resist... ;)
you can call me a [beep]ing [beep] of a [beep] beep] if u like.
...but you are right, ms & gates is nothing to talk about all the time.
about that vxd thing: uhm... does that matter?
have a lot of fun.
Then you could just attach your head to the genetically identical body
:)) ... and an fallback process would have installed an emergency head on each body.
Ok, well, *just* do that.
But could people get really immortal by s/old body/new body/g ?
a 500 year old woman with a 25 year old body
....unpleasant thought
when talking about head transplanting and bill gates, "microsoft exchange" gets a new meaning.
microsoft (R) head exchange (R)
with microsoft (R) body explorer (R)
"what do you want to transplant today?" (R)
version 9.00, first release (but who cares).
you plug in the ms-phtu (microsoft (R) portable head transplanting unit) in an usb-slot and the thing is detected automatically. as a multimedia device. the default language is arabian, every single dll is automagically overwritten, but who cares. after half an hour of dumb clicking-around, everything is set up. hopefully.
you have put your new headless body into the chair next to you.
you fire up the virtual transplantation engine with a brave doubleclick.
head transplanting initiated.
please wait...
[a window pops up showing two headless bodies sitting in chairs with a head floating from one to the other in an endless loop]
and then, in the middle of the transplantation:
------- 0E ---------
general head-protection fault
error in trnsplnt.vxd at 00F0AD:00BEAF
[meaningless hexdump follows]
hope you made a backup copy of your head before it crashed!!!
on a unix machine, your head would have been dumped
AND...there would be a message:
please run the transplantation manually.
This discussion is real fun! :))
:)
It is THE theme on slashdot an i really love to read the same arguments told again and again using different words and i am even more amused reading the lots of NEW arguments never heard before!
i have an idea:
make this discussion a separate part of slashdot, a permanent feature, a gamelike thing with a big counter Linux vs. MS where the best comments score! Only the last, say, 300 comments are stored, like with a logfile-wrapper.
Except of the above, THERE WILL BE NO RULES!
wow, i'd love that!
BUT WAIT:
Another thing we could do:
write two eliza-like programs, one on a Linux platform, the other on a windoze^H^Hws platform. (maybe even make separate ones for win9x and winNT...)
then, put them into discussion.
yeah, make them defend their platform and try to outrage each other.
AND: the both elizas must have a web interface, where geeks can add new arguments and curses to the knowledge-base of each one.
of course this could be extended to other platforms too!
maybe we can also do a moderator-bot, that tries to calm down both parties...
hummmm...that would be funny...
*ROFL* ...please...stop... :)))))))
/. vote like this:
;)
ohmygod.
BTW, make a
DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?
- Yes, of course!
- No, no way!
- Why? I AM immortal!
more ideas?
Nice aphorism by someone, who's name i forgot, poorly translated into english:
"Mankind should always be aware, that it is not more than just a experiment of nature"
Excuse me, i forgot:
s
There is a short howto, for setting up cfs:
ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/cfs.notes.m
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Then you believe in security through obscurity.
No, that's not my point.
I just don't want anybody to see AT THE FIRST GLANCE, that there's something crypted.
Ok, you are right when someone takes a closer look, that doesnt help.
But if you have to enter the key all the time you
reboot your machine, you must always unlock the
crypted fs. Ain't i right?
The more people who use crypto, the more effective cryptography will be for everybody. If one has to even understand what ``NFS'' is in order to install a package like this, then it's still too hard.
You are right. Maybe RedHat or Suse will add it to
their distributions. Then it will come correctly set up. Oh, wait, it seems RedHat has included it already: http://www.replay.com/redhat/cfs.html
That's why PGP and S/MIME are still so marginal that they can be completely discounted: only gurus use them, because they aren't so completely transparent that you don't even know that they're there until they have something to warn you about.
Try KDE's kmail. Or read Pine's documentation on how to embed pgp.
But it will always be the users part to understand what he does, why there are public/secret keys and so on. I think it can never get fully transparent.
I've written a PGP-GUI too, 2 years ago. The problem is, a user always has to worry with his keyrings manually, there are some points that cannot be automated.
Some believe NASA faked the moonlandings because they couldn't have to tech to get there. Some believe the NSA is so far ahead of the crypto game that they look over their shoulder all the time.
Ok, that is plain paranoia, right.
NSA is government so it's acronym should probably stand for 'Not So Advanced'.
Huh? I hear you say "US Army is government so it's acronym [...] stands for 'Not so Advanced' ".
And that's plain wrong.
If you're concerned about them, thats not paranoid. Being concerned is, IMHO, our duty, and we should give the average users a slight idea about whats going on.
I am surprised that ppl, that are not so much into computers and stuff know almost NOTHING about NSA, crypto and so on. You almost never hear anything about that on TV, Newspapers...
I am concerned, not paranoid. There's a difference.
nuts
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Is this dream even remotely realizable?
:)
;) as far as I remember, there is a step-by-step description how to configure.
... but if you need that, you could add the corresponding command to the init.d script.
;) ) appears -> detach the crypted fs.
:)) fscking cool.
no problem right now
I am using CFS for quite a while now.
Hm, I don't think it's too complicated, (ok, maybe it took me some time to make it work
after installing the daemon with an init.d script you can mount crypted filesystems. It's straight forward.
i would suggest not to do this during startup, as you would immediatly reveal that you have crypted data.
If you think about crypting your whole filesystems, that might be possible, but you would lose LOTS of performance. Just create a directory for your sensitive data.
Then, inside your favorite Windowmanager, you may have two icons, that let you attach and detach the crypted directory
hm...about reentering the passphrase after suspension...
I personally would add a line to my log-watcher (something like "SWATCH" or "WOTS") that looks after apmd's messages to syslog. if a "resumed after suspend" (dont know the exact text and my notebook is at home
I think the power of such software relies on the fact, that it is NOT stuffed into a corset of GUI and foolproof(impossible) usage.
if you need help, send mail.
nuts
p.s.
Has anybody here experience with sfs ?
Steganographic FS
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